President Irfaan Ali has approved $350 million to support the cash-strapped Guyana Forestry Commission to pay salaries to staff and utility services.
Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat during an engagement with staff of the Commission committed to seek the President’s intervention to obtain financial support for the agency, which has been struggling to pay staff on time and fund other critical operational costs for several months.
In a release ministry said too that workers have not been paid their $25,000 bonus in 2018, which was announced.
Bharrat said government is committed to paying this outstanding bonus to all eligible staff before the end of 2020.
Meanwhile, Minister Bharrat has already commenced discussions with the Commission and other stakeholders within the forest sector to examine strategies to enhance the financial performance and management capabilities of this very important sector.
